Get Paris metro map, Paris metro map pdf with sights and streets, Paris metro zone map. Check ticket and travel card options. Metro journey planner. The metro is the prime public transport in the city. The suburbs in Grand Paris are connected to the city by metro, RER and train lines. Paris metro facts. Transport in Paris. Paris maps.
Print official and up to date Paris metro map pdf with 14 metro lines and 5 regional metro lines (RER).
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Metro map in English pdf
Download Paris metro map in English with sights and streets. Print it and use it while in town.
Paris metro zone map
The large Paris region is split into 5 concentric metro zones. Pay attention. Metro zones 1 and 2 are accessible with standard metro tickets. Special tickets have to be bought to get to zones 3, 4 and 5. Print Paris metro zone map.
Paris apartment and hotel map
RER metro map pdf
The RER is the Paris regional metro. It connects the city with Disneyland, Fontainebleau, Versailles Palace, Orly Airport and Charles de Gaulle Airport. Print and bring with you the RER metro map pdf.
Paris train map
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Map of airport connections
Print pdf map of connections to Charles de Gaulle and Orly Airports.
Paris bus network map
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Applications
To prepare your city visit, download the RATP metro application, available through App Store and Google Play.
Paris tourist map
Locate top city sights on Paris tourist map. See them with streetview.
Arrondissements map
Locate top city sights on the map of Paris Arrondissements, the 20 city subdivisions with each its city hall.
Metro network extension
From 2025 onwards, Grand Paris Express will be a massive extension of the transportation system. Grand Paris facts.
Paris metro information
The first metro leaves the terminus at 5.30am. The last metro arrives at the terminal station at 1.15am, except on Fridays, Saturdays and on nights before a holiday, when the service ends at 2.15am. Time between trains range from 2 minutes during rush hour up to 13 minutes during late night hours, holidays, and Sundays, depending on the line and station.
Entrance is by automated gate, opened by tickets, Navigo travel passes or Paris Visite travel pass. Gates return metro tickets for passengers to keep.
Metro tickets are sold at automated machines in metro stations. They are gradually being phased out and replaced by Navigo travel passes. The new Navigo Easy is practical for occasional travelers and tourists and a good alternative to the metro tickets.
The pass can be bought in metro stations. It should then be loaded with transport tickets. The pass is not nominative. It can be loaned or transferred. During a trip, each traveler must carry and have validated his own pass.
Navigo Easy metro passcard
Paris metro tickets
T+ tickets cost 1.90 euro. Valid for a multi transfer journey within 1h30 from first use, they can be used on the metro, buses, trams, RER in zone 1 and 2 with transfers on the same mode of transport and between metro and RER. Special tickets have to be bought for zone 3 to 5.
When transferring between the metro and the RER, it is necessary to retain the ticket. The RER requires a valid metro ticket for entry and exit.
Tickets are gradually being phased out
Guimard Paris metro sign
Ride Paris metro with a pass
The Paris Visite travel pass provides access to public transport services. It is valid for 1, 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days in metro zones 1 to 3 or 1 to 5. The validity period starts at midnight on the first day and ends at midnight on the last day.
The Paris Visite travel pass provides unlimited free rides on the transport system of the Paris region including the metro, bus, trains and Montmartre funicular.
Paris Visite travel pass
Montmartre funiculaire is included in the pass
Paris metro history
Fulgence Bienvenue, a French engineer, accepted the network project in July 1897, and work began in October 1898. The first line (Porte de Vincennes - Porte Maillot) was opened to the public on 19 July 1900 in order to serve the events of the 1900 summer Olympic Games at the Bois de Vincennes. The putting in place of the metro was agreed upon by the state and the city of Paris to remedy the problem of increasingly insufficient surface transport. They were thinking ahead, in particular, to the upcoming World Fair of 1900. The original project comprised a circular line running Etoile-Nation-Étoile and two transversal lines, one running north-south (Porte de Clignancourt-Porte d'Orléans) and the other east-west (Avenue Gambetta - Porte Maillot). Two management companies then came into being: CMP (Compagnie du métro parisien) and the Nord-Sud company, each using different decorations for their stations.
By 1913, the metro network had already grown to comprise ten lines: 8 were the property of CMP. The remaining two belonged to Nord-Sud (the current lines 12 and 13). From 55 million in 1901, the number of passengers had increased to 467 million by 1913. The network continued to grow during the First World War. Between the two wars, lines 9, 10 and 11 were opened and the two management companies merged into one.
It was all the way to 15th October 1998 before another new line was opened: the 14, initially running from Madeleine and to the National Library, then extended to cover gare Saint-Lazare, then Mairie de Saint-Ouen is the backbone of the ambitious Grand Paris metro project. On June 24 2024, just in time for the Olympics, line 14 was extended to Saint-Denis Pleyel to the north and Orly Airport to the south. The fully automated line 14 is now 27 kilometer long and the backbone of the Grand Paris metro network.